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Suffragan diocese Jixian, China

Diocese of Jixian

Ueihoeiven(sis)

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jixian (Weihui/Weihwei) is a Latin diocese centered on Weihui in Henan, China, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kaifeng. Its lineage goes back to the Vicariate Apostolic of Honan erected in 1844, renamed Weihweifu in 1924 and elevated to a diocese on 11 April 1946. Bishop Joseph Zhang Yinlin succeeded to the see in 2016; in 1950 it counted about 46,000 Catholics.

On the map

Esri
Jixian, China, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1844
Catholics
46,000
Territory
2,500,000 km²

Parishes and churches

5 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Joseph Zhang Yinlin

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The cathedral

Cathedral in Anyang stands in Jixian, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

The city of Weihui, within the ecclesiastical province of Kaifeng in China, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Weihui/Weíhwei/Jixian, whose Latin name is Ueihoeiven(sis) and whose Chinese forms are 衛輝 and 級縣.